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The death penalty has been abolished before in Anglo-Saxon law. William the Conqueror banished it during his reign (1066-87), though he did not object to criminals being mutilated. But a few years later, Henry I (1100-35) permitted the ax and rope to return, and by the 16th...
WHEN Decimal Day dawned last week, the British kept the pound (or quid) and such variations as the 5-, 10-and 20-pound notes. But in dividing the pound into 100 new pence instead of 240 old pennies, they lost all their old coins. The ha'penny, thrup'...
* First mention of the penny, the oldest English coin, occurred in the laws of the West Saxon King Ine, who ruled between 688 and 726. The first pennies were struck in silver about 770, and some time after that it was discovered that 240 coins could be minted from a...
Longshoremen in Holland, Belgium, Norway and Sweden, meanwhile, refused to handle Britain-bound cargo, and other dockers seemed likely to follow their example. In Northern Ireland, dockers attacked fishermen who had been running supplies of Irish bacon and eggs into Britain, dumping the goods into harbors and scattering them on...
Doggedly, Heath kept to his own path, convinced that housewives were heeding his message. If Labor came back to power, he cried, its tax policies would guarantee more inflation. "We would have a 3-shilling loaf, a shilling bus fare and a shilling telephone call, and we would have to...